UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson - September 10, 2022

[Chris]

Main card
Welterweight Nate Diaz vs. Tony Ferguson
Catchweight (180 lb) Khamzat Chimaev vs. Kevin Holland
Catchweight (180 lb) Li Jingliang vs. Daniel Rodriguez
Catchweight (140 lb) Irene Aldana vs. Macy Chiasson
Light Heavyweight Johnny Walker vs. Ion Cuțelaba

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Catchweight (149.5 lb) Hakeem Dawodu vs. Julian Erosa
Catchweight (220 lb) Jailton Almeida vs. Anton Turkalj
Middleweight Denis Tiuliulin vs. Jamie Pickett
Catchweight (267.5 lbs) Jake Collier vs. Chris Barnett

Early preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Women's Featherweight Norma Dumont vs. Danyelle Wolf
Bantamweight Chad Anheliger vs. Alateng Heili
Women's Strawweight Melissa Martinez vs. Elise Reed
Welterweight Darian Weeks vs. Yohan Lainesse​

 

[Deezy]

Out here stealing Tony Khan's angles.

 

[Chris]

 

[Deezy]

Ofcourse it was Diaz's camp that were throwing shit.

 

[Deezy]

 

[Chris]

HE SAID ITS NOT THAT BAD AND LAUGHED

 

[Deezy]

We still trying to forget this weight shit matters to UFC?

He gives up some money to NAte....they still fight and beats him badly....Nate cries like all Diaz bros do and he can fuck off and Khamzat has his marquee name under his belt.

 

[Apoho Creed]

 

[Chris]

Holy fucking shit bro

 

[Apoho Creed]

Holy fucking shit bro

My thoughts exactly to change a Card less than 24 Hours is pretty crazy to do. I like Ferguson vs Diaz and I wanna see how Holland does vs Chimaev.

 

[Chris]

What a fucking week in the world of real and fake fighting

 

[Chris]

Due to main eventer Khamzat Chimaev missing weight by 7.5 pounds Friday, the card for Saturday's UFC 279 has changed drastically.

Nate Diaz will remain in the main event but will now fight former interim UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson instead at 170 pounds. The fight will be five rounds.

Diaz was set to face rising star Khamzat Chimaev in the main event, but Chimaev missing the welterweight limit so badly prevented that from happening. As of this writing, it's unclear why he missed so badly. This was to be his first-ever pay-per-view main event.

Ariel Helwani reported that former interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier was asked by the UFC to fight Diaz and accepted with a pilot/jet on standby. However, they chose to go another route.

Chimaev will remain on the card and will face Kevin Holland instead in another five round fight. Holland and Chimaev have been building up a rivalry on social media in recent months and got into a skirmish Thursday -- one of two that resulted in media day being canceled.

Ferguson was set to face Li Jingliang in a welterweight co-main event. Jingliang will now face Daniel Rodriguez who was set to face Holland in a 180-pound catchweight fight.

This is the final fight on Diaz's UFC contract. Had he chosen not to fight, there was speculation the "sunset clause" on his deal would given him his contractual freedom anyway.

Nate Diaz vs. Tony Ferguson set for UFC 279 after Khamzat Chimaev misses weight

One miss on the scales resulted in several Saturday fights being changed.

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[Chris]

Also updated the OP, all those catchweight fights holy fuck

 

[Vegeta]

If someone ordered the PPV for the original fight, and don’t care about this one. Could they like, cancel it since it’s not aired yet and get a refund. Or does card subject to change apply here also?

 

[Chris]

If someone ordered the PPV for the original fight, and don’t care about this one. Could they like, cancel it since it’s not aired yet and get a refund. Or does card subject to change apply here also?

Idk would probably just depend on the ESPN+ refund policy. They say subject to change for sure but that doesn't always mean you can't be refunded before the event starts even for no reason whatsoever